Chapter 92 Black Snake Swallows Hedgehog

"Captain Hakuto, Lord Bellard is going to be dissatisfied with us now."

Along the mountain path, fifty mercenaries marched slowly.

"We are from the White Maple Mercenary Group, not Bellard's private property. He is just our employer, not the leader of the mercenary group." Hakuto looked around nonchalantly.

"What should we do now?" A younger soldier slashed the long-leaf grass on the ground with his dagger.

"Look around, I always feel like something is wrong." Pushing aside the bushes in front of him, Hakuto turned his head and said to the person behind him, "That Cleonte is not such an unreliable person. Our Bei..."

"Captain, be careful!"

A flash of cold light appeared in the corner of Hakuto's eyes, and he immediately retreated, while the spear narrowly missed his lips.

Hakuto took two or three steps back, but his body still fell backwards on his companion. He covered his mouth and nose, and blood flowed from between his fingers.

"Blow the whistle, form a formation, it's short hair."

Before the rest of the mercenaries could react, soldiers in black cloaks emerged from behind the bushes.

Their steps were hurried and their faces were obviously nervous, but they still lined up in an almost neat queue.

The mercenary squad leaders immediately blew their whistles, but the rain poured into the whistles, distorting the sound.

The mercenaries in white robes who were originally scattered began to gather in the middle immediately at the sound of the whistle and quickly formed a square formation.

The black-capped soldiers, flying black and red flags, were also blowing whistles, and the small open space was instantly filled with commands and whistles.

The Black Hat Soldiers from the three brigades formed neat rows. The Black Hat Soldiers standing in the first row had already changed into four-meter-long forged spears, while the Black Hat Soldiers from the last two brigades still had two people sharing a six-meter-long cast spear.

The raindrops fell on the ground with a sound, and the sharp whistle stopped for a moment.

At this moment, the Black Hat Army and the White Maple mercenaries looked at each other.

The next second, the straw sandals splashed the puddles on the ground, and mud and water got on the pants that were rolled up to the knees.

The Black Caps from the three brigades simultaneously charged at the fifty men in front of them.

The friction between the gun blades made a crackling sound, and the footsteps were as regular as the sound of rain.

The White Maple mercenaries in the first row also raised their kite-shaped shields, and long spears passed over their shoulders, resting on their shields, heading towards the Black Hat Army.

The spears were exposed in the rain, and the entire phalanx looked like a porcupine covered with sharp spikes.

"Stand still, stand still." There was a gap on Hakuto's upper and lower lips and the tip of his nose, and his speech began to leak.

Before he could finish his words, the black hat soldiers had already begun charging in the wind and rain.

This made Hakuto couldn't believe his eyes.

Infantrymen who can charge on the battlefield while running are all top-notch veteran elites. What they need is not only discipline and trust, but most importantly, the morale of not fearing death.

These black hat soldiers actually...

Before he could finish, one of the black hat soldiers in the first row slipped to the ground.

On the slippery ground, like dominoes, the black hat soldiers in the first row all slipped and fell to the ground one after another.

The Black Caps in the second and third rows had to stop their charge and carefully step over the fallen men.

It was at this time that Hakuto discovered that these black soldiers would tie a rope around their waists, so that when they charged, they would form a neat charging formation.

But this seemed extremely stupid to him.

Because in this way, if one person falls, everyone has to help him, and it is easy for one person to bring down the whole place.

Similarly, if one person wants to run away, everyone will be implicated and even run away together.

They are indeed an ignorant mob. I was actually scared at the beginning.

After passing the first row of black-hat soldiers, the black-hat soldiers from the two brigades behind and twenty companies raised ten spears and rushed towards the spear phalanx.

"Don't move! I said don't move!" Hakuto shouted loudly, as the six-meter spears came closer and closer.

In the eyes of the Bai Feng mercenaries in the first row, the enemy's spears were about to poke their eyeballs.

"prick!"

At Hakuto's leaky command, twenty spears immediately thrust forward, one row straight and one row slanting upwards.

Two rows of spears instantly pierced into the chests of five or six Black Hat soldiers. Blood spurted out from the wounds and screams rang out immediately.

The shield soldiers in the first row took out their short swords and began to block the spears and stab the black hat soldiers in the front row. Of course, the black hat soldiers were holding six-meter spears, which were much longer than these spears, and two or three of them pierced from the side of the shield or simply pierced into the shield.

In front of these veterans, only unimportant parts such as their arms were injured.

The blood immediately mixed with the rain, flowing on the mountain path, carrying commands and screams.

Groups of black-clad soldiers emerged from the bushes, most of them armed with spears or short spears, and some of the new recruits even had only sticks, flails and pitchforks.

Among the black-clad soldiers surging like waves, Hakuto even spotted a group of black-clad soldiers with red cloth tied on their arms, and some even wearing chain mail and leather armor.

The black soldiers bypassed Hakuto's formation and tried to surround it from both sides, but Hakuto immediately ordered a retreat and tried to return to the main road.

Damn the weather, we can’t fire flares to notify the people down the mountain.

Hakuto's spear phalanx fought and retreated, and neither the Black Hat Army nor the Guards could break through their spears.

Faced with the hedgehog-like phalanx, people would rush forward from time to time and try to break through by force, but in the end they could only be dragged back by the brigade commanders of other brigades.

The black-clad soldiers surrounded Hakuto on three sides, slowly moving with the spear phalanx and constantly trying to coordinate charges and feint attacks.

Hakuto smoothed down his gray hair, smoothing the white hair that blocked his vision onto his head, and fell into anxiety.

He was right about the tether tactics, but he was wrong about the group of black soldiers.

This was very different from the mobs he had seen before. He and his fifty men had killed or injured nearly thirty of them, but there was still no sign of defeat, not even a single deserter.

Even faced with such a scenario, they still tried to attack instead of shrinking back.

The most important thing is that although they are poorly trained and inexperienced, their formation is very orderly, which is definitely due to the guidance of special officers.

"Flying axes, watch out for the flying axes, dodge!"

While Hakuto was distracted, two brigades of guards had already rushed up and threw out the throwing axes at their waists.

Twenty hatchets spun in the air and crashed into the formation of the soldiers like rolling wheels.

Hakuto raised his arm and used his shield to deflect a hatchet, and right in front of him, a White Maple mercenary fell straight down.

The back of a flying axe hit him right in the face, knocking him unconscious.

Most of the other people around me were like this, and some of the axes even fell on people with the axe blades.

Hakuto looked around and fortunately only three or five soldiers were injured. Only the one in front of him had lost his combat effectiveness.

"Drink the potion! Prepare to break out!"

Seeing more and more soldiers pouring out of the bushes, even reaching a number of two hundred, Hakuto immediately made up his mind.

The Bai Feng mercenaries immediately took out potions from their waists.

This is a potion specially prepared by the Kingdom Pharmacist Guild for the Baifeng Mercenary Group. It has the effects of boosting morale, stopping bleeding and relieving pain.

Under the command of Hakuto, the fifty mercenaries who were besieged by nearly two hundred people took the potions from their waists one by one and poured them into their mouths.

Soon, their skin began to turn slightly red.

But at this moment, the besieging black soldiers suddenly made way, and then a girl emitting electric light walked out from behind them.

"Witch!"

"Damn it, there really is a witch!"

"I thought it was just some rumor spread by refugees."

The Bai Feng mercenaries began to curse, but Jeanna didn't give them a chance.

Normally, Jeanne's lightning would always be deflected by the armor, but now it was raining and these mercenaries were almost soaked.

"Fuck-"

The sound of electric arcs jumping was heard in the air, and a pale flash of lightning flashed across the hedgehog formation.

The tiny electric arc carried the smell of rotten eggs. When the white light disappeared from in front of the array, the five people in the area centered on the point where the lightning struck all fell heavily to the ground.

Their eyes were white, their faces were covered with lightning-like bloodstains and pustules, and their hands and feet were still shaking.

When lightning condensed in Jeanna's palm again, Hakuto squeezed to the first row.

"Wait, we surrender!"

(End of this chapter)